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Of wearable fitness device makers, Fitbit spent the most on advertising its devices last year, investing $21.

Noted telemedicine attorney Nadia de la Houssaye says the jungle of state telemedicine regulations might be the biggest barrier to widespread adoption across the country.

San Francisco-based Lir Scientific is developing a new wearable device, called Brightly, that tracks the user's bladder fullness to help remind people to urinate.

Smart hand hygiene sensor-maker SwipeSense, based in Evanston, Illinois, has raised $9.

Researchers at an Australian university have developed stretchable, wearable sensors that could detect both harmful toxic gasses and dangerous UV radiation.

McGill University Health Center in Quebec, Canada has partnered with SeamlessMD, a company that has developed an engagement tool for surgery patients, to test the efficacy of a tablet app for enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS).

More than 70 percent of Walgreens Balance Rewards members participating in the healthy choices program with a connected device were still active in the program a year later, according to Walgreens.

BodyMedia's patents, now owned by Jawbone, are at the heart of the new suit.

This week the American Medical Association’s ethics council attempted to come to an agreement over a set of guidelines focused on ethical considerations related to the use of online or mobile visits between patients and physicians, but a physician from Texas helped convince the committee to rethink its plans.

Some 58 percent of people with diabetes want to use technology to track their diets, according to an online survey of 2,535 American adults, conducted by Telcare through SurveyMonkey.